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The American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) was founded by trainees, for trainees and continues to be trainee-led. It is the premier organization for physician-scientist trainee advocacy. Visit the APSA website for information about membership, career paths and funding opportunities.

Graduate Medical Education at NIH - NIH currently offers 18 medical specialty or subspecialty programs which have been accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). NIH also jointly sponsors clinical training programs with extramural training partners, including Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, and the National Capital Consortium. And they sponsor numerous "one of kind" translational medicine fellowship training programs within the 27 Institutes and Centers of the NIH.

Elsevier has an excellent Early Career Resources site for beginning researchers, including sections on funding, networking, writing and publishing. Check it out.

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